Two campsites a few feet from each other. These had full electric and, like all of the sites in this park, were in the woods
In the second site, I'd found the 20 amp circuit had an open ground, and so used the 30 amp circuit with an adapter. I reported the problem one afternoon, and the next morning the maintenance guy replaced the outlet. Good service!
Tested out our new toaster which works well, but you do have to remember to flip the toast (I like mine on the dark side anyway)
In Monessen we found a small museum dedicated to the area, and a docent who spent a lot of time helping Shelly, and let me actually touch the telephone in their collection! (An AT&T 100 style set, with a round base, and F1 receiver. Someday I'll find one in an antique store and buy it.) Much more pleasant experience than certain art museums in Philadelphia that I could name.
We also spent a day at the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History in downtown Pittsburgh. All in one building, you may as well see both because you couldn't see all of one without passing through galleries of the other. In keeping with our (new) tradition, we didn't have time for the 3rd floor, so will have to go back.
In Ohiopyle, there are a number of waterfalls and hikes to them
Be a little wary of the trail names on the maps. Between the hiking map and the campsite map they don't always agree, and neither always agrees with the names on the trail signs. But other than a slight risk of getting lost and dying, totally worth the trouble! Actually, you could just park a few feet away from those falls, but we hiked a mile and a half from our campsite. Someday, we will park there and hike to the next falls upstream.
The area is so nice, we were thinking of buying a cottage around there. Looked at this one, but no sale!
Stone floors on top of concrete with questionable steel reinforcement--over a stream--it's cold in the winter. Rooms are small, though the decking is adequately sized. (The architect calls that "compression and release", or some such nonsense.) Annual maintenance bills worth more than our cabin in New Mexico. Oh well!
(For those who seriously like Frank Lloyd Wright, Kentuck Knob is also up the road. Entrance fees to both are high, so we decided Falling Water was enough of that.)
But back before this area had Pittsburgh, or even Pennsylvania, it had Fort Necessity. This is where a little known Virginia militia officer met a small army of French and Indians, who defeated him, leaving no recourse but for the British and French Empires to fight the first world-wide war.
Luckily for the future of our country, Leftenant Washington escaped using the slide!
No, this is the actual reconstructed fort here
Shelly wondered what would have happened had Washington been killed. I suggest we (the US) would have remained part of the British Empire, which means we would have defeated Hitler at least two years sooner. But who knows. Totally idle speculation, but when in this area, it is interesting to remember the steel output of the US vastly exceeded that of the Ruhr region, perhaps one of the fundamental reasons (as Churchill pointed out) the allies won World War II.
Finally, in the very meadow Washington picked for the battle, I managed to dumb-luck onto a decent photo
Tom
